SMJ | Faroese expertise making its mark globally

Ólavur Í Geil
2 hours ago
2 min read

The next phase of growth in land‑based salmon farming may not come from building new facilities—but from getting more out of those already in place.

In SMJ work, SMJ increasingly see a gap between what facilities are designed to deliver and what they achieve in daily operation. Closing that gap creates biological, technical, and financial value. And it requires more than upgrading tanks or equipment. It depends on how the site is configured, how production stages are linked, and whether future expansion was considered from the start.

Because many sites have been developed step by step under changing conditions, bottlenecks often emerge—restricting growth, flexibility, and production flow.

For the past 10–15 years, SMJ have worked on designing, expanding, and upgrading land‑based salmon facilities, often while production continues. This has given practical insight into where operations typically slow down—and how to fix those issues without disrupting ongoing production.

Alongside this, SMJ has developed compact, modular RAS systems for the full Atlantic salmon lifecycle, commonly used to:

• Improve fish welfare

• Remove bottlenecks

• Enable step‑by‑step expansion

• Increase output from existing sites

And as SMJ sees across the industry, Faroese aquaculture expertise continues to make its mark internationally—shaping how modern land‑based salmon farming is designed, managed, and optimized.

From SMJ perspective, future growth is not only about building more.

It’s about making better use of what is already there.